Task Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Task Automation
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 109 123
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 18 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.38% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 5
10th Percentile £458 £430 £368
25th Percentile £477 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +344.44%
75th Percentile £538 - £425
90th Percentile £630 - £450
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,590 2,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.77% 89.73% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 993 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £349 £267
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham +11 11 £489 -2.20%
Reading -11 4 £625 +47.06% 2
Bracknell -5 1 £325 -
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Appium
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) MSTest
1 1 (5.56%) NUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
1 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
1 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Site Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Database Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) GitOps
2 13 (72.22%) ITSM
2 13 (72.22%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (72.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Change Management
3 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
3 11 (61.11%) Software Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
4 10 (55.56%) Microservices
5 9 (50.00%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.56%) Matrix Management
7 1 (5.56%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) SC Cleared
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Argo
1 10 (55.56%) Grafana
1 10 (55.56%) Istio
1 10 (55.56%) Kibana
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 10 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) Google